This was a script I started back in 2004 / 2005, which Kevin Rose first popularized by “digging” it on digg.com. The idea of the script is really simple: it’s a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases, and scoring with girls.
This project’s always played second fiddle to my other big script, Form Tools. However, I’ve put aside Form Tools until May 2014 and once I’ve completed a few other tasks will be returning to this script.
There have been three versions of the script:
Version 1
As it stands, the website is actually running version #1 of the script – it’s old!
Version 2
With version 2, I rewrote a lot of the code to make the data types modular. However, I never actually pushed the version out of Beta. It was simply due to time. You can try a working demo of 2.3.9, here:
http://beta.generatedata.com. It’s substantially better than the first version in a number of ways.
Version 3
When I finally returned to the script, I decided to skip all the fuss with making 2.0 the main build, and just vouched for doing another re-write. I’m currently working on version 3, which is a complete re-write – back-end, front-end, everything. It’s going to be fully modular and… awesome.
You can follow the progress of v3 here on github, but I’d strongly advise against forking it at this early date. Everything’s still in flux!
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